• solsangraal
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    11 hours ago

    OG DOS command line interface nerds unite

    but yes. it helps to have grown up alongside the IT industry and internet

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      I remember getting our first computer. It was a Tandy 1000 and I was completely fascinated by it. I loved playing games on it but we couldn’t afford them. My dad got some sort of PC magazine that always had the DOS code for one or two games in the back and I would spend hours writing that code onto the PC so we could play things like video poker or chess.

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      11 hours ago

      I remember copying a game onto floppies from DOS, but I can no longer remember the command that tells it to split the file onto multiple disks because it’s too big for 2.88 MB

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        It was called spanning and was usually done with a third party utility like xcopy or pkzip, but I am pretty sure MS backup did it as well. I don’t think you could do it with DOS copy command through v6.22.

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        funny how i didn’t see all the shit you had to go through back in the day just to pirate a <10MB game as a pain in the ass that i see it as now, yet i’d still go back to those days in a heartbeat if i could